Samba creator Tridgell joins OSDL

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Australia's Andrew Tridgell, the creator of Samba, has been
appointed as the second Fellow at the Open Source Development Labs,
a global consortium which is aiming to speed up the adoption of
Linux by corporates.

Samba allows Windows clients to connect to files and printers
running on a server via the Server Message Block and Common
Internet File System protocols.

An OSDL media release said Tridgell, who is currently a
researcher with IBM and also a visiting fellow at the Australian
National University, would join Linux creator Linus Torvalds at
OSDL; Torvalds was the first to be appointed a Fellow by the
consortium.

The positions have been created by OSDL to allow strategic
developers to focus on their development and coding contributions
to the open source community.

According to the release, Tridgell is engaged on developing the
next major release of Samba, version 4 which is aiming for protocol
completeness, extreme testability, non-POSIX backends, fully
asynchronous internals and flexible process models.

OSDL was founded in the year 2000 by Computer Associates,
Hitachi, HP, IBM, Intel and NEC.